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The Chimney of the World How Vesuvius, Sunny Italy’s Old Mountain Demon, Acts When Aroused

Orta Volcmk Mwultf BclcbM Fonb Rbd Soikw bf Ljti. MDe* la If,lib. Tkat Dari and Mist, Wiptef (tet Vfllajcj and Tow n* aa They Move. Naabcn Ita Victkmi by tbe Hundred* of Tboaaaada. Whea ia Eraptkm. Roan Like tbe Day

rtM ago. mo then and little children to-

W HEN n mountain goee to roarins and bellowlns. npllttln* It* ■Idee, blowing Ita top off and destroying all the dtlee and town* In Ita vicinity mere man takes to the wood*. Ordinary catastrophes be may receive with crltlclsma, with reviling*, even with blasphemy, bat when Ibe earth foe* to doing thing* be ha* not a word to say. That la too appalling for comment. Cyclone*. Hood*. Area, famine* and pestilence* are everyday affliction*. When man la assailed by them be la not entirely swept off hi* feet. He can show flgbt. But when the earth quiver* with pain or bowl* with agony there I* noth- I Ing left for the human animal bat to ' Ue down and die or slide for the tail timber. Talk la entirely outclassed. It Is not at borne In tbe volcanic atmosphere. If the voice Is used at all It la only for Inarticulate sound*. Words j are too artificial for each elemental

-Nature’* Aih Heap.” Veecvln* has been called “the chimney of the world." likewise “nature** ash heap." also sever*I other names that tall a million mile* short of being aa horrible a* the thing they seek to describe. There Is no word or com-

cruptious. some of thorn severe. Naples has been frequently sprinkled with ashes, Torre del Greco has been swallowed op a half dozen times or more, other towns have bo.-n threatened and nearly burled with nahes, lava ha* been poured all over the mountain and down Into the sea. new craters have formed, only in turn to be obliterated, while other yawning mouths were made, and over and over again from out of the demon heart of the volcano has been belched an Infernal torren overwhelm the peaceful land below. Rarely Entirely st Rest The mountain 1* seldom entirely at rest. It may be but a thin wisp of steam that arise* from It. Just a reminder to the world that It Is not dead. Ail the while lava will he pushed up Into tbe crater, where It will ha and form a sort of stopper. Then either the cork must be blown out or the bottle broken. Sometimes things happen at once. Even the neck has been blown entirely off at ti In the present eruption the whole mountain top. nearly 000 feet at ft, waa demolished. Often tbe greet sugar loaf of a hill Is split, rent and battered out of all semblance to Its former self. Great masses of rtJPTT weighing

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blaction of words that comes within speeklng distance of that All of them are not only inadequate, hot In legal pliruaeology are "tmiaatcrtal, incompetent. Irrele-rtni and have no bearing oo tbe case.” After Goethe had been to aee Vesuvius be said something about bell hanging over paiadUe. which as s description of tbe contrast between tbe old mountain demon and sunny Italy round about to perhaps aa near to tbe thing as human language can eome; so ft Is Just as well to tot It go at that. If seven battles and seventeen thun-

the resultant noise would bs something like that of Vesuvius when “working." It bowl*, whistles, screams, thunders, toots, bellowa and rip* up the universe generally. In other words, ft makes a noise like tbe day of Judgment. If you have never beard a

thousands of too* are borne upward by the tremendous pressure of the gases, at first slowly, but with ever accelerated speed, finally to be tossed high above the mountain top and crash back open tbe elope# with ao earthquake shock One such giant bowlder was thrown out of tbe crater that It waa estimated would require over half a million horsepower to lift Ashes and steam are blown through tbe opening with such force that they take the form of an Immenoe pine tree; as described by the younger Pliny fat his letters to Tacitus. Red Snakes That Dari ami nUs. Vesuvius Is the sort of workshop In which chaos Is made, where world stuff Is tossed about as a blacksmith tosses about horseshoes All that It doe* Is titanic. It speaks with a great clouds nearly five mile* high. Its ashes have been known to fall In tbe streets of Cup-

other lu love. Rather the molds In tbe ashes were found, for tbe bodies long since b.-id crumbled sway. And as they fell ao olltera fell but yesterday. Even If one escaites tbe ashes and the lava be may yet te suffocated by the palsoiioas gases, for these, too, roll out of the great cblmoey and scatter i country side, groaning and reverberating hill outpost of death, and many forms bar* the forces of destruction that lasu* to do Its commands. It Is a section of tbe Inferno whose actual horrors almost rqual thoee of Dante's Imagination. It Is a fountain of fire playing upward from the central court of hades. It Is —Vesuvius, for there It no figure of speech that conveys so dir* a meaning as Ita own dread name. Thousands of Victims. No one can tell 1 the numbers of its dead. There Is no exact record of those who perished at Herculaneum and Pompeii nor In tbe centuries since. It Is Impossible even to number those who fell In the last fearful eruption, the greatest that tbe mountain has given forth since that Initial one In the day* of Titus. Thousands of tourists hare lost their lives seeking only to look upon Vesuvius In Its quieter mood*. Hundreds of thousands have paid the penalty for daring to till Its fertile slope*. One city. Torre del Greco, has been swallowed up over and over again, and each time a new town baa arisen on the lava and ashes that had burled the old, thus making a sort of municipal layei cake, aa It ware. When an earthquake once opened a seam through tbe town a man descending Into the chasm found himself In a church. The human animat Is a daring brute, after all. It I* a saying In tbe Vesurtan region that "Naples sins and Torre del Greco pays the penalty." Tbe smaller etty la a sort of a buffer against the divine wrath. TeJ through the ages has persisted a prophecy that at last Naples would bate to pay her own debts, far she herself would Cali a victim to the ire of the mountain. Mill iocs Lost b Money. Tbe greet loss from the recent eruption. the total destrortloo of Boacotrecase, a city of nearly 10,000; the partial destruction of Ottajono, Sarno and many other cttle* and vlllagso, the wiping out of little farms and vineyards, tbe hundreds killed and the tens of thousand* driven from their homes, the terrors and discomforts of tbe half million people living In the vicinity—of these things It Is Impossible for cold type to tell. Tbe 'loos alone Is estimated at over (20.000.000. There are over 50.000 he * Tbe falling of tbe roof of tbe market at Naples, killing or mjurlng nearly 200 people, caused the citizens to shovel the ashes from their roots prevent other like catastrophe*, the ashes sifted down the necks of (jic pedestrians the language os lurid and volcanic as the mountain Itself. Tbe fights that resulted rather relieved the tense strain. There bare been few greater example* of modern heroism than that of Professor Muttuccl. In charge of observatory of Mount Vesuvius. Tbe loss of life would undoubtedly have been much greater bad It not been for the timely warnings sent out by this soldier of science. Through all the frightful days of the eruption he re1 at tils post dispatching of cheer to the distracted Inhabitants. taking records and observing tbe phenomena of the terrifying upheaval that constantly —* bis own life. Associated m or Manned Is an American, Krank A. PerreL formerly of Brooklyn. Vesuvius has been Id a state of more than wonted agitation for a year, but without doing any especial damage, except to the railroad that leads to tbe nm ftmnfff, ftl* snetept mown.' tain waa not entirely devoid of sympathy for the human ants that swarm about Its base and bad given a long warning of the disaster to ~ ante failed to heed tbe gig having grown Carn'ilar with the tm-

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